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How lethal is rabies virus?

submitted by profvrr on August 23, 2012
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Tags: case fatality ratio , fatality rate , pathogenesis , Peru , rabies , vaccine , vampire bat , viral , virology , virus
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When I am asked to name the most lethal human virus, I never hesitate to name rabies virus. Infection with this virus is almost invariably fatal; just three unvaccinated individuals have been known to survive. New evidence from humans in the Peruvian Amazon suggests that the virus might be less lethal than previously believed.
 
 

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